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Natural selection, mutation, and adaptation are well-known and central topics in Darwin's theory of evolution and in the 20th - and 21st -century theories which grew out of it, but many other important topics are used in evolutionary biology that raise interesting philosophical questions. In this book, Elliott Sober analyses a much larger range of topics, including fitness, altruism, common ancestry, chance, taxonomy, phylogenetic inference, operationalism, reductionism, conventionalism, null hypotheses and default reasoning, instrumentalism versus realism, hypothetico-deductivism, essentialism, falsifiability, the principle of parsimony, the principle of the common cause, causality, determinism versus indeterminism, sensitivity to initial conditions, and the knowability of the past. Sober's clear philosophical analyses of these key concepts, arguments, and methods of inference will be valuable for all readers who want to understand evolutionary biology in both its Darwinian and its contemporary forms.

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  • Title The Philosophy of Evolutionary Theory
  • Author Elliott Sober
  • Binding Paperback
  • Pages 308
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press
  • Publication date 2024-02-08
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9781009376013 / 1009376012
  • Weight 1.09 lbs (0.49 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.61 x 6.69 x 0.65 in (24.41 x 16.99 x 1.65 cm)
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Evolution (Biology) - Philosophy, Natural selection - Philosophy
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2023037181
  • Dewey Decimal Code 576.801

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